Friday, April 17, 2015

MELAYU RAYA COULD HAVE CAUSED SINGAPORE NOT TO EXIST AS WHAT IT IS TODAY.

…CHANCES
ARE LEE KUAN YEW WOULD ONLY BE A STATE MINISTER OF SINGAPORE
WITH SINGAPORE HAVING A
GOVERNOR, AND A MELAYU ONE AT THAT LIKE LIM GUAN ENG OF PULAU PINANG.

By
Mansor Puteh

If not
for his Baba background, Lee Kuan Yew would not be what he had been, being able
to go deeper into the psyche of the Melayu in Singapore
and Tanah Melayu or Malaya then, and being
able to speak fluent Melayu which also gave him a good advantage over the other
Chinese leaders.

If he
had been just like the other Chinese, chances are he might not be able to speak
in Melayu to be able to mix with them a lot more and thus became just like the
other Chinese leaders in Singapore
who were not Baba or Straits-born Chinese.

But once
he thought he did not have any need to master Melayu, he forgot it so much so
that he admitted to not being able to converse fluently in it, because he did
not have anyone to speak in the language to.

How
could he not have anyone in Singapore
to not being able to speak in the language? He ca+n use it by reading Berita
Harian there like what his son, Hsien Loong continues to do till today and who
occasionally speaks in the language and giving his national day speech in it
too.

If
Melayu Raya was successful chances are Kuan Yew would be as fluent in Melayu as
Sukarno and Tunku were.

Indonesian
President Mohammad Sukarno was right in wanting to form or create Melayu Raya,
to combine Indonesia with Malaysia.

Kuan Yew
was wrong to want to establish a Malaysian Malaysia, a concept to many Melayu
is nothing but a sick ploy to diminish Melayu rule in Tanah Melayu and creating
a Malaysia like Singapore today, which has almost become a colony of China with
the many Chinese workers living in the country who do not speak much English or
any Melayu.

They are
unlike their countrymen who are in Malaysia even illegally to work in the pasar
malam and who are able to speak good or passable Melayu enough to be able to
argue over prices with some of them Melayu.

But
Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman did not want to have any of that,
so Konfrantasi or Confrontation between Indonesia
and Malaysia
happened.

If
Melayu Raya or the concept of Melayu United was given the opportunity to
happen, then Singapore would not be able to exist, despite the brilliance of
Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew who Mahathir Mohammad was happy to comment how he,
Kuan Yew had wanted to become the leader of a larger country if Singapore
continued to remain in the Federation of Malaysia.

Singapore was in the federation for two
years before Tunku expelled it. Kuan Yew cried.

He
probably thought if Singapore
was still in the federation and if his Malaysian Malaysia concept was accepted
by all or the majority of Malaysians, then surely, over time he could become
the country’s prime minister and slowly but surely, Malaysia
could also become a bigger Singapore
with a Chinese majority.

Kuan
Yew’s Malaysian Malaysia concept is silly; he should know that the majority of
the Melayu would not accept it.

He also
did not seem to realize that Malaysia
formed after the rulers of the nine Melayu states had agreed to merge, so their
views and desires too had to be considered.

If the
Malaysian Malaysia concept had to be accepted than the nine Sultans had to give
way.

There
was no way for the Melayu to be able to accept this.

And even
then, surely, the population of the Melayu would increase so that they would
become the majority in the country with Singapore too having less Chinese.

With the
PAP still active in Malaysia,
Kuan Yew will definitely be the most senior Chinese political leader in the
country and the offshoot party known as the Democratic Action Party (DAP) would
not exist.

It was a
grave mistake for Melayu Raya not to have been allowed to be formed. It would
have caused the Melayu in the two countries and also Brunei to be more united with a
more common language and identity.

Even the Melayu in South Thailand and the Philippines
would be further empowered and chances are South Thailand
would have become an independent state long ago.

Thailand would not dare to make Melayu
Raya unhappy, and they have to allow the Melayu states in South Thailand
independence, as much as the Philippines
was also forced to allow the Melayu areas in South
Philippines independence too.

Was
Tunku feeling inferior to Sukarno that he did not agree to Malaysia and Indonesia merging?

Tunku only wanted Sabah and Sarawak, and Singapore
and also Brunei to merge to
form Malaysia
so he could continue to become its prime minister.

With Sukarno in Melayu Raya, chances are he and not Tunku would be elected the
country’s leader since Sukarno was already the leader of a much larger country.

Kuan Yew could only dream of becoming the chief minister of the state of Singapore with it having a governor much like
the governors that we have in Melaka, Pulau Pinang and Sabah and Sarawak in the Federation of Malaysia today.

And
Pulau Pinang too would not have a Chinese majority. The Melayu from Sumatera
would come in droves to overwhelm them.

The
Chinese in Malaysia will be
and behave much like the Chinese in Indonesia who were forced to go to
the cities to live after they were forced out of the rural areas by force in
the 1960s where they live quietly without any political ambitions and being
forced to submit to the dictates of the majority.

Or maybe
the concept of Melayu Raya can still be realized albeit in a different form
with Malaysia and Indonesia merging in many ways that allow their
citizens to further coalesce into one entity with a common goal much like Singapore which is slowly but surely doing that
with Motherland China.